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Online Shipping Petition To USPS

Nice. Signed the petition. It would be nice to open up shipping to less expensive animals.

I've shipped probably 10000 items with usps and rarely had a problem. It made zero business sense to use the other guys, regardless of how "high quality" their shipping was.

Although there was that one time where the package was found on the tarmac at the airport and looked like it got run over... several times. That wouldn't have been pretty with a live animal inside.

Open it up, the more options the better!
 
Theobald Brooks said:
I am not knocking FedEx at all. They are a great shipping company but just ridiculously overpriced for the purposes of shipping a 1lb box. I also have some issue about it having to be done overnight. If fish can make it being sloshed around in a bag via USPS Priority in 3 days or 14" 2lb Flowerhorns make it all the way from Thailand and be fine then snakes would be fine that way too.

If my little runt can handle me cramming three pieces of cut up pinkie down her throat twice a week and be fine then a healthy snake will be fine in a box for 2 or 3 days when the weather isn't extreme. Heck, mine stay in their box for twice or three times that most of the time and wouldn't have it any other way! :noevil:
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When do we ever have ideal weather for shipping at both locations? At my location, I would be restricted to shipping for only 2 weeks in the spring and 2 weeks in the fall, and you can totally forget about hatchling season. If it wasn't for over-night service and ice packs, every snake I sent out would be completely cooked after just 15 minutes riding around in the back of the truck on the second day.
 
I'm sorry, but I don't trust our government to do a lot of things, much less ship my LIVING animals across the country. I'll stick with FedEx. I use them at home and at work and seldom have an issue and it's always quickly corrected.
 
Not trying to coerce anyone into shipping any certain way. We'd just like to have the option.

Everyone remember to throw that link up on your facebook, twitter, blogs or whatever else if you signed it.
 
theroadwarrior said:
I just wanted to throw out there that this may all be irrelevant, because I would imagine USPS would be remiss to take on the added logistical, financial and legal accountability that would be required for shipping reptiles (especially without increasing the prices).
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USPS already ships live reptiles- they just don't ship snakes.

I like and trust FedEx- I am sticking with them no matter what the competition does.

Would (does) USPS insure live animals? FedEx does not.

As Susan says, shipping conditions are rarely perfect for even a short trip of 18 hours. It takes a lot of preparation to be aware of and predict the weather and temperatures at each stop along the way. Or not- we hear disaster stories of snakes shipped without proper precautions every summer and winter. Just ten degrees out of the snake's acceptable range will cause neurological damage or death.
 
as cheap as technology is nowadays i'm surprised that the chinese haven't done it. something along the lines of those battery powered socks for the heating part of it.
 
FedEx doesn't give insurance? That surprises me.

The thing I don't like about USPS is their tracking lags a lot.
 
Yes it does. A lot of times when I ship something Priority the customer will already have it in their hands for a day before it shows up on the website that it was delivered. Their scanning/tracking is definitely not up to the standards of FedEx.
 
Susan said:
USPS might be cheaper, but would they be as good? They don't have a very good record around my house, nor with anyone else I've spoken to. If they can't deliver the regular mail properly or on time, what makes you think they can do a live snake any better? I actually foresee even more problems as there are far more carriers, most of whom are just a hair this side of competent, who will throw a big stink because "OH NO!! It's a SNAKE!!!" Not that FedEx is perfect, but they at least not only come up my driveway (UPS refuses, they leave everything 300 feet down to the end of my driveway next to my garbage cans and USPS has never been to my door either), they will knock on my door and actually wait for a reply.
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It's bizarre how regionally all the carriers seem to be different as far as service and reliability go. USPS around me is bullet proof. Never any issues, same with FedEx. UPS is a disaster, packages come all which times of the day, sometimes will "be out for delivery" for a few days before they get delivered.

Whereas others have the exact opposite experience.

I don't think shipping snakes via USPS would be a bad thing necessarily, maybe a little competition would be good, and this way buyers would have more options if there's a carrier they feel is superior in their area.
 
I could imagine that (competion idea) would not work well for the shipper b/c if they don't trust USPS, they aren't gonna send their snake that way (at least i wouldn't). I had something - just a piece of mail - take nearly a week to get to me from a town 1-1/2 hours away. Another friend of mine sent me something after the 1st piece was sent and I got it next day.

Today, I had to UPS shipments coming and they arrived on 2 different trucks, how efficient is that? Apparently I don't know how they load their trucks!

FedEx overnight always seems to get to me at the 10:30 mark, always makes me wonder if business gets their stuff before residential or what and why am I always last?
 
They have a particular route that they run here. We used to get our packages from FedEx about 10am at Walmart. One day a sub driver ran the route backwards and we didn't get them until almost 3pm. I don't know exactly about FedEx because I never asked him but I know for certain that our UPS driver did business before residential because my home address was on the same route and I would always take my packages at work at 11am because he wouldn't make it to my house, even though it was about 2 miles away til after 6pm.
 
For us USPS is always late and horrible on Saturdays, often like they missed a mail box and we'll get the mail for the guy down the road and the next house gets our mail. However our local office is small and less than 5 miles away...

UPS just plain sucks... They often leave packages that have to be signed for outside of our neighbors house or down at the mail box (which is down the road a bit and we have signs to show where our house is so they can't claim they don't know where to go).

Fed ex delivers here just fine but if no ones home they'll leave packages outside the fence even if they have to be signed for too. Our only problem is that we have to drive over 30miles to an actual location that will hold the corns in the office. There's a fedex right over the state line in GA for any other snake but the corns can't go there Lol. Always there early too.
Though it bothers me that while I was in NY this past weekend I watched a Fed ex guy picking up packages from a cart and toss them in the back of the truck. Didn't even look like he was looking at them just picking the up and tossing them... Of course he could have looked at them when he loaded the cart, it was just odd.
 
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